Description

Binbrook, a large village and a parish in Lincolnshire. The village stands on the river Ancholme, at the foot of the Wolds, 7 miles W from Ludborough station on the G.N.R., and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Market-Rasen. It was formerly a market-town and a place of some note, but has considerably decayed. The parish consists of two quondam parishes, Binbrook St Gabriel and Binbrook St Mary, united by Act of Parliament. Acreage, 5391; population, 1084. There are extensive rabbit warrens. The living is a consolidated rectory and vicarage—St Mary a rectory, St Gabriel a vicarage—in the diocese of Lincoln, net yearly value, £300. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church of St Mary and St Gabriel is a building of stone in the Early English style, and was erected at a cost of £5000 in 1869. There are Wesleyan, Primitive, and Free Methodist chapels, a temperance hall, a reading-room, and a police station.